Readable Specs vs. Clever Specs: Finding the Balance in Test Design

November 25, 2025 In every engineering team, the topic eventually comes up: Should our tests be concise and optimized, or explicit and easy to read? As engineers, we tend to enjoy clever solutions—those elegant one-liners or metaprogrammed helpers that feel powerful. But when it comes to test suites, clever is rarely the right choice. In … Continue reading Readable Specs vs. Clever Specs: Finding the Balance in Test Design →

🚀 Ruby 4.0.0 Preview2 is Here!

November 24, 2025 Ruby keeps evolving, and the 4.0.0-preview2 release is packed with exciting changes. If you love clean code, emojis, and a little bit of magic in your programming, this one’s for you. What’s New? 💎 Nil Gets Smarter nil.to_a no longer surprises you, just like nil.to_hash. Less magic, more clarity. 🔗 Bindings Refined … Continue reading 🚀 Ruby 4.0.0 Preview2 is Here! →

🚦 Understanding State Machines in Ruby: Concepts, Examples & the Best Gems

Understanding State Machines in Ruby: Concepts, Examples & the Best Gems November 21, 2025 State machines are one of the cleanest and most reliable ways to model workflows in software. If your system needs to move through predictable steps — orders, payments, approvals, devices, tickets — a state machine ensures everything transitions cleanly and safely. … Continue reading 🚦 Understanding State Machines in Ruby: Concepts, Examples & the Best Gems →

Mastering Ruby’s Object Model and Metaprogramming in Rails:

November 18, 2025 How to Build Flexible, Scalable, and Maintainable Systems** By Germán Alberto Silva (senior Rubyist since 2005) Ruby is often described as an elegant, expressive language—but few developers understand how deeply powerful its object model truly is. And nowhere does this power matter more than in Ruby on Rails applications operating at scale, … Continue reading Mastering Ruby’s Object Model and Metaprogramming in Rails: →

💎 Unless: The Ruby Way to Not Say No

November 13, 2025 Sometimes, the smallest details in a language reveal the biggest lessons. Recently, during a code review, someone suggested I change this: if !name.nil? puts "Name exists" end to this: unless name.nil? puts "Name exists" end At first, it looked like a minor stylistic tweak. But in Ruby, style often carries philosophy. 🧠 … Continue reading 💎 Unless: The Ruby Way to Not Say No →

🔍 Understanding Ruby’s .. Range Operator in ActiveRecord Queries

July 21, 2025 When working with date ranges or numeric intervals in Ruby on Rails, writing clear and idiomatic code can be the difference between “just working” and being truly expressive. One tool that helps achieve this is Ruby’s inclusive range operator .. — and yes, it works beautifully with ActiveRecord too. 🔍 Understanding Ruby’s … Continue reading 🔍 Understanding Ruby’s .. Range Operator in ActiveRecord Queries →

🔗 Ruby’s zip: Elegant Array Merging Made Easy

July 7, 2025 💻 #Ruby #RubyOnRails #ProgrammingTips #CleanCode Ever needed to combine two arrays element by element in Ruby? There's a method for that—it's called zip, and it’s one of my favorites for transforming structured data with elegance. 👇 Here's why zip is worth knowing: ✅ Combine Arrays by Index [1, 2, 3].zip(["a", "b", "c"]) … Continue reading 🔗 Ruby’s zip: Elegant Array Merging Made Easy →

🧠 Hash Transformations in Ruby: index_by vs index_with

🧠 Hash Transformations in Ruby: index_by vs index_with July 4, 2025 Ruby and Rails developers often appreciate how expressive and elegant the language is—especially when it comes to working with collections. One of the lesser-known gems in Ruby’s Enumerable toolbox is the pair of methods: index_by and index_with. Both are incredibly powerful for transforming arrays … Continue reading 🧠 Hash Transformations in Ruby: index_by vs index_with →

El que busca, encuentra: A Survey of Search Strategies in Ruby

A Survey of Search Strategies in Ruby July 3, 2025 "He who seeks, finds." — Popular Spanish Proverb In the domain of computer science and software engineering, the act of searching is more than a task — it is a fundamental cognitive pattern, embedded into the logic of algorithms, data structures, and the very languages … Continue reading El que busca, encuentra: A Survey of Search Strategies in Ruby →

🧭 Simplifying Deeply Nested Routes in Rails with shallow: true

Simplifying Deeply Nested Routes in Rails with shallow: true July 2, 2025 When building APIs or web applications using Ruby on Rails, one often encounters the challenge of managing deeply nested resources. While Rails' routing DSL offers expressive ways to represent model relationships, deeply nested routes can result in unwieldy URLs, complicated controller logic, and … Continue reading 🧭 Simplifying Deeply Nested Routes in Rails with shallow: true →